Part 3: The Band Bus Quarantine

Last fall, as Odessa High School brought some students back to
campus with hybrid instruction, school officials insisted mask
wearing, social distancing and campus contact tracing would keep
students and faculty safe. And at the beginning of the semester,
things seemed to be going OK. But then a spike in coronavirus
cases hit town, putting the school’s safety plan to the
test. 


In part three of our four-part series, we follow what happened
when a student quarantine stretched the school’s nurses to
capacity, fractured friendships and forced some marching band
members to miss a critical rite of passage: the last football
game of their high school career.


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